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YJ windshield wipers #813745 05/23/07 03:15 AM
Joined: May 2007
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hoki06 Offline OP
Need a Spot
is there any way i can use the TJ wiper arms so they dont stick up in the windshield like they do now?

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: hoki06] #813746 05/23/07 03:44 AM
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Chris72 Offline
Rock Warrior
Have you had the YJ long? If not, give it some time, eventually you'll get used to them and won't even notice they are there.

That being said, I'm thinking if you just swapped the arms from a TJ, you may have trouble adjusting the distance the wipers travel. On the YJ, they start in the center and move both higher and lower than the starting point to clear the whole window.

With them starting off at the bottom from the bend in the TJ arm, the wipers may not travel up far enough to clear the whole window.

Inside the windshield frame on each wiper transmission, there is a metal tab that bends around and hits another tab on the transmission that reverses the direction of travel. The transmission is kept in place by a little raised spot that fits through a notch in the frame. It's kindof hard to explain without pictures, but if you fold down your windshield and look behind those plastic plugs, you should be able to see what I'm talking about.

I've never tried this, but you might be able to bend the tab to adjust the travel for the new 'bent' wiper arm.

Another thing that might work, if you get the TJ wiper arms from a junk yard, also remove the wiper transmissions and linkage. If they fit in the YJ windsheild frame, then that should already be adjusted to the proper distances.

Again, I've never tried either solution, but if you can acquire the parts at a reasonable price, it might be worth a try.


Or maybe someone else here has already done this, and they'll tell you that it just works. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Good Luck

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Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: Chris72] #813747 05/23/07 03:48 AM
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hoki06 Offline OP
Need a Spot
im fine with them but i share the jeep with my dad as a weekend toy/project car and he doesnt really like them the way they sit now. plus i think it would be kind of cool and unique if i could get it to work. nothing to big but jeep people might notice it

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: hoki06] #813748 05/23/07 03:58 AM
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fishtaker Offline
Rock Warrior
Are you talking about the wipers on the inside or outside of the windshield? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" />


03 TJ 5 Speed I-6 30X9.50 BFG KO's
Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: fishtaker] #813749 05/23/07 04:05 AM
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Chris72 Offline
Rock Warrior
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Are you talking about the wipers on the inside or outside of the windshield? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" />


I'd almost forgotten about that <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: Chris72] #813750 05/23/07 11:43 AM
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hoki06 Offline OP
Need a Spot
outside.... where are there wipers on the inside of the windshield?

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: hoki06] #813751 05/23/07 02:33 PM
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bhartwell59 Offline
Getting the Wheeling Fever
i remember seeing somewhere (quadratec, 4wd hardware), a wiper arm kit for yj's that place the wipers down where they'd be on a tj.


4.2 '87 yj, 263,000 miles, mopar mpi, 33" mud bfg, skyjacker 4", 3.73 gears, arb lockers-f and r., tom wood's 2.07 shaft conversion, tom wood's hd driveshaft, magnaflow/custom exhaust, 4wd bumper/swing-out tire carrier
Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: hoki06] #813752 05/23/07 02:54 PM
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Chris72 Offline
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outside.... where are there wipers on the inside of the windshield?


Long story... check out this thread from last month and you'll understand <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I can't get the link right, you'll have to copy and paste it onto a single line in your browser to get there.

http://www.4x4wire.com/forums/showf...BB2&Number=996973&Forum=,All_Forums,&Words=&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=991246&Search=true&where=&Name=8341&daterange=&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post996973

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: bhartwell59] #813753 05/24/07 02:49 AM
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hoki06 Offline OP
Need a Spot
i've looked around and haven't found any type of conversion kit... does anybody know where one would be or if one still exists?

Re: YJ windshield wipers [Re: hoki06] #813754 05/24/07 02:05 PM
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 156
CoronaJeeper Offline
Wheeler
Check out riptech.net, or google "wipeboy". Rip Tech Engineering (800)586-1614 makes a set of wipers for YJ's that are angled to get the things out of your line of sight. I had a YJ for years, and I never quite got used to staring at those things while I drove. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />
Corona
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'98 TJ, 4 cyl., auto
31" AT KO's on rockcrawlers,
custom bumpers, Hellas
2" Teraflex lift, no top,
no doors, no problem.
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